Questions of security in the modern age are intrinsically linked with the internet and new technologies. Cybercrime, threats to cybersecurity, and data leaks are all seemingly constant features of the digital age.
Research at the OII considers all these problems. We ask questions like: How do internet users behave in the face of cybercrime? What is the future of strategic cyber deterrence? What does a feminist conception of community-based cybersecurity look like?
Reconfigure is a feminist cybersecurity project that uses community-based participatory methods and feminist approaches to reconfigure cybersecurity research and build public capacity for data privacy and action.
Through empirical research, this project seeks to understand the determinants of individual cyber security behaviours of students in France and the UK.
This is an inter-divisional and multidisciplinary eight-month pilot study devoted to landscape the problem space and the future research on strategic cyber deterrence (SCD).
By Julia Slupska, Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Gina Neff, Nayana Prakash, Selina Cho, Linda Ma, Laura Shepherd, Hayyu Imanda, Hubert Au, Antonella Perini, and Romy Minko
The discourse around cybersecurity can often seem academic and exclusive. The Reconfigure project aims to build a feminist alternative and this report sets out findings from a pilot study applying “action research” methods to cybersecurity questions.
By Fred H. Cate, Peter Cullen, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Age-old principles for data protection need updating for the age of big data. This report, from an Oxford Internet Institute-led working group, offers suggestions for changes to the influential OECD guidelines first drawn up in 1980.
1 July 2021
Use of big data have raised fears that tech will enable privacy violations by states and business, especially at the expense of marginalised populations. What role does 'decentralised' identity have in countering these problems at the global margins?
30 April 2021
27 May 2020
13 May 2020
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo has been appointed as Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Ethics Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.
Computer Weekly, 12 April 2022
Expert witness in Lords police tech inquiry welcomes committee’s findings but questions whether its recommendations on how to end the ‘Wild West’ of police artificial intelligence and algorithmic technologies in the UK would be implemented.
Business Insider, 23 March 2022
Apple has cut business ties with Russia, but its App Store still hosts 45 apps by Yandex, the Russian internet giant that's been accused of censorship about Ukraine.
Nature, 17 March 2022
Many analysts expected an unprecedented level of cyberattacks when Russia invaded Ukraine - which so far haven’t materialized.
